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FILM STAR’S POPULARITY. ROBERT TAYLOR’S ORDEAL. SAN FRANCISCO, June ii. Twelve hundred high school girls gave one delighted shriek when Robert Taylor, handsome film star, was introduced to them as a ••graduation present” and then they rushed forward to collect. The startled heart throb of a million women was on the stage of the girls' high school to speak at a graduation day assembly. Columns of girls poured up the steps to the stage. Others scrambled over the footlights. Scores more struggled backstage among the props and other paraphernalia, snagging their hosiery and screaming. Tried to Dodge Them. Taylor dodged back through the scenery. Girls pursued him through the halls waving text books and demanding his autograph. lie sped down a fire escape. Girls pattered after him.
Cornered in his taxicab, he signed a history book, a chemistry noteboook and a piece of news paper while the driver was getting underway.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20260, 31 July 1937, Page 17 (Supplement)
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154MOBBED BY GIRLS. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20260, 31 July 1937, Page 17 (Supplement)
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